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> Never mind merging. It's not an SCM, it's a distribution and archival mechanism. I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though. Linus Torvalds r
by spb 12y ago
> Never mind merging. It's not an SCM, it's a distribution and archival mechanism. I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though.
Linus Torvalds really has a gift for under-promising:
> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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> It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.
- wz1000 12y agoMuch better than over-promising :P
- justicezyx 12y agoIt's not underpromising, it's just being accurate. People are just indulged in the MBA shit-talk style so deeply...
- yason 12y agoThat's simply so genuinely Finnish.
- fapjacks 12y agoYES! Thanks for that. It's exactly the truth, and something I so sincerely appreciate about their (and more generally Scandinavian) culture.